Taiji, Japan, correcting the lies from the movie "The Cove"

Link to more photos and videos from the Japan trip:
http://staff.texas-daddy.com/

The Academy Award winning movie titled "The Cove" is a supposed documentary about the dolphin and whaling industry in a picturesque small village in Taiji, Japan. The film leads one to believe the inhabitants of this hamlet are blood-thirsty and hostile to foreigners. The reality is the premise of this propaganda piece is pure fiction based in hatred and hallucinations.

I can write this because I just recently returned from Taiji, Japan. I met with the mayor, members of the fishermen's association, and shop keepers. These are genuine people just like any middle class folks around the world with the desire to provide for their families and their future. Whaling and dolphin harvesting has been part of the town's culture / industry for at least the last 400 years.

In the movie "The Cove" is shows the producers being followed by and bothered by the police. Really? I traveled through the town in a customized, oversized Chevrolet van that screamed "foreigner," yet I did not see one policeman. The fictitious documentary purports to show difficulty in videoing in the town. Huh? I traveled and walked with my video camera without any hindrance or interference.

Prior to visiting Taiji my desire was to meet with the mayor. When he was contacted by my counterpart in Japan, the mayor refused. Due to the movie "The Cove" and the subsequent despicable behavior of Sea Shepherd, the so-called "Cove Guardians," that thing Scott West and his vermin infested minions. Mr. Shun of Japan requested I make a short video addressing the mayor explaining who I was and why I was requesting a meeting with him.

Shun transferred the video to a DVD and sent it to the mayor with a cover letter. Resulting in a few days later receiving the desired appointment. We met with the mayor, the assistant mayor, some of their staff, and members of the fishermen's association for about an hour. After formal introductions, I bowed towards the mayor, apologized to him for the shameful behavior of Sea Shepherd in their village. I informed the assembled group that these She Shepherd drones are not representative of people in the USA or Texas. That they are rejected derelict misfits, an abomination to the West.
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The mayor gave us a delicious lunch made up of whale meat, afterwards a private tour of their whale museum and dolphin training center. The town of Taiji enjoys a population of around 3,225 people, most of who are connected to the whaling / dolphin industry. Many of their last names are related to whaling and dolphins. The permission for dolphin harvesting does not come from the mayor's office, but come from the prefecture's governor's office.

Likn to She Shepherd's behavior in Taiji:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQl1Vj_Vd3Y-

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[RollinOverU]

The dolphin hunting in Taiji isn't "culture" or "tradition", it's either for sport or for money that they don't need. And anyway, they're poisoning the Japanese population by selling the dolphin meat. It contains 2000 parts per million of mercury. Way above the legal limit, let alone the amount to kill a man.

[PropagandaBuster]

@RollinOverU - So let me see if I understand what you wrote: You who are living in the USA are going to tell the people in Japan what is, and what is not their culture and/or tradition? How interesting you should possess such knowledge above the people in Japan.

According to you the mercury: “Way above the legal limit, let alone the amount to kill a man.”

1 - “legal limit” where?

2 - How many in Japan have died from eating dolphin meat from “…let alone the amount to kill a man?”

[cheyla38]

disgusting

[PropagandaBuster]

@cheyla38 - delicious

[hizzleyo]

we went over this old man, you're not a propoganda buster, your just a hate spreading troll. and no shit the police weren't harassing you, they were following cove guardians because they didn't want the atrocities of the dolphin cull to be known to the world

[brittmdias]

@PropagandaBuster

If anyones culture and/or tradition involves killing animals like this- its wrong.

Bloodshed in anyway is wrong.

Culture ok- if anyone wanna praise whatever god read any bible sit in a circle and play duck duck goose OK do your thing. But when people use this as an exuse TO KILL any animal or human being. ITS WRONG.

[iantaylor124]

This old troll serves no beneficial purpose on this earth. He must be silenced. Now.

[iantaylor124]

@Vossy0331 PETA already does that. Also, it was seen in the movie Earthlings. Besides, you can't focus on every animal welfare issue. You have to focus on one if you want to make change. Dumbass

[Vossy0331]

@iantaylor124 why didnt you talk about the billions of animals killed in the us every year????????

[kazuniz2]

@platicocl Fuck you too.

[platicocl]

Enano estúpido, fuck japan

[iantaylor124]

How would you like it if you were drove into a cove, being separate from your family, and the next day being slowly slaughtered by a bunch of fisherman ?

[StuchosGracias]

Most of the officials were removed from their positions after "The Cove" came out, and why would people put such strenuous efforts into protecting a secret which was now a well-known fact?

[etphonehomeok]

Mr. PropagandaBuster, you are one of the very few open minded Americans I've ever known. Keep up the good work!

Love from Japan

[iantaylor124]

@PropagandaBuster mercury poisoning doesn't just knock you over dead. It takes a while.